Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this experiment a team from Culham went to the Kurchatov Institute to measure the temperature with the new laser-scattering technique that I have already mentioned . |
| 2 | To his surprise he received in reply a note from her mother . |
| 3 | Even so , it was equally true that huge sums had been lost in the courts and he called to mind a case from the text books , when a million dollar had been forfeited because of the misplaced comma . |
| 4 | Active hobbies provide physical occupation allowing the mind a break from other pressures , while hobbies requiring concentration can also divert the mind as well as preventing boredom and providing mental stimulation . |
| 5 | In Section i of this chapter a text from Paul 's sententiae was discussed . |
| 6 | FINANCIAL markets displayed little enthusiasm for Nigel Lawson 's speech to the Tory party conference yesterday but were prepared to grant the pound a respite from the hammering of the past few days . |
| 7 | Now er that , if I was off sick , I could go to the Doctor and er I got , as a single man , I got er a pound a week from the National Health . |
| 8 | Pensioners face a rise of only one pound a week from next April , the smallest increase for years . |
| 9 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
| 10 | And there 's all separate , two pound a table from fifty pence to one pound fifty for a chair . |
| 11 | According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene . |
| 12 | In what was in effect a digression from the main study , Cox , a colleague of Terman , conducted a ‘ historiometric ’ analysis of the mental traits of 301 carefully selected individuals , living between 1450 and 1850 , who could be recognised as of outstanding genius . |
| 13 | The words , spoken in a high , rather forced voice , had the repressive authority of a nurse-receptionist greeting a patient from whom she expects nothing but trouble . |
| 14 | MIDFIELDER Alan Pardew headed the clincher a minute from time to give Charlton two wins out of two . |
| 15 | Motorists , denied this exhilarating walk , must return to Dent on wheels , reaching the village a mile from the junction at the foot of Deepdale . |
| 16 | The object of my journey was to deliver a little shoal of Knight Gobies Stigmatogobius sadanundio a fish from brackish water in Indonesia , Burma , India and the Philippines . |
| 17 | But to survive an arrow a mile from a road with a killer around to make sure I did n't make it … where in one 's mind did one search for the will to survive that ? |
| 18 | from eighty five , one itself , it 's dec it 's negative clearance a decision from the commission that you do n't fall within eighty five at all |
| 19 | If the reply was ‘ haemoglobin' you would be dealing with a red blood cell ; albumin would indicate a liver cell ; insulin a cell from the pancreas . |
| 20 | Ludens detached from the windscreen a note from Jack which read Bon voyage . |
| 21 | ‘ Camille , get the boy a Coke from the fridge . ’ |
| 22 | On the second morning , Miss Honey received by registered post a letter from a firm of local solicitors informing her that the last will and testament of her late father , Dr Honey , had suddenly and mysteriously turned up . |
| 23 | Does it not presuppose man 's progress from primitive to sophisticated ways of life , and does it not suggest on the basis of a progressive increase of ahi sā a movement from a less good to a better form of life ? |
| 24 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution whose report finally prompted the government to make its decision , estimates that some people are taking about 300 micrograms of lead a day from their drinking water . |
| 25 | At this point a wag from the back of the large audience called out " the only trouble is that it would only be 2½″ long ! " |
| 26 | A group of more than 30 travellers ' caravans have now set up on a roadside site a mile from the village at Crew crossroads . |
| 27 | Ditto the job lot of Edwardiana on the walls , the only genuine article a letter from Betjeman to a friend burbling characteristically about high Anglican synods and club bores . |
| 28 | Petrovsky also delivered to the Libyan leader a letter from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . |
| 29 | ALEXEI GRYSCHENKO , the joint skipper of Fazisi , the Soviet entry in the Whitbread Round the World Race , was found dead yesterday , hanged in a forest a mile from Punta del Este , Uruguay , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 30 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |